Garment-supporter.



O. KALLBERG.

' GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26. l9l5.

1,21 15589 Patented Jan. 9,1917.

VAN--52 lmbbnumo OSCAR KALLBEBG, 0F PATTERSON, CALIFORNIA.

GABMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 191?.

Application filed July 26, 1915. Serial No. 42,039.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OSCAR KALLBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Patterson, in the county of Stanislaus and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment supporters and is more particularly concerned with the provision of a combined safety pin and catch whereby drawers may be supported directly by the trousers, overalls or other outer garment of the wearer.

It is a more specific object of the invention to form a safety pin and an integral clasp support out of a single length of spring wire and to associate with the clasp support a catch member operative in conjunction therewith to engage the garment to be supported.

It is also a particular object to mount a clasp in such manner upon a safety pin that the article engaged by the clasp cannot be released therefrom except through the medium of manual operation, thus obviating all possibility of an unintentional displacement of the fabric.

The above and additional objects which will be hereinafter more specifically treated, are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out in the claims which are appended hereto and form a part of this application.

With reference to the drawings, wherein there is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention as it is reduced to practice, and throughout the several views of which like characters of reference designate similar parts :-Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the garment supporter of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a sideview of the same subject-matter; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view takenthrough the supporter when in the position shown in Fig.

2, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the locking means for the clasp.

The parts of the garment supporter provided by this invention are adapted to be made or formed from lengths of spring wire, a metal wire of any suitable material and dimensions being employed for this purpose. The garment supporter includes three main elements, the safety pin, the clasp support and the catch member, the first two being formed integrally from the same length of spring wire.

The bight portion of a length of spring wire being secured it is bent in a half circle to provide the double loops 5 and 6 which terminate in the upwardly directed bight 7 for securement of the safety pin formed from one of the dependent lengths of wire as will be later explained. The length of wire dependent from the loop 5 is straightened out to provide a back portion 8 for the safety pin and is subsequently coiled as shown at 9 in order to provide spring convolutions for the pin extremity 10 of the dependent length of wire under discussion. The extremity of .the pin 10 is preferably sharpened as denoted 11 in order to facilitate the piercing of the fabric.

The length of wire dependent from the loop 6 is clenched about an adjacent portion of the straight length 8 forming the back of the safety pin in such manner as to provide spaced coils 12 and 13. This latter coil is extended laterally of the portion 8 and is subsequently bent downward as designated 14 in spaced relation thereto, continuing to provide the semicircular clasp lock 15. A connecting portion 16 of the length of wire is provided to link this semicircular portion 15 with a similar portion 17 carried upward from the link 16 in a manner paralleling the first mentioned locking portion but spaced therefrom along the back bar 8 of the pin, upon which it is clenched in the manner shown by the numeral 18. Continuing from the clenching coils 18 and along the same single length of wire a portion 19 extends downwardly until in substantial horizontal alinement with a portion of the curved locking lengths 15 and 17. An angular bight 20 is formed at the terminal of the portion 19, such bight being bent up wardly to provide a cross bar 21 which supports the catch member to be later more I fully described and which connects with the second angular bight 22 in symmetrical relation to the first mentioned angular bight and upon the opposite, side of the locking lengths. From the angular bight 22 there continues upwardly a portion 23 in the manner paralleling the similar portion 19, this last mentioned portion terminating the single length of wire thus far employed and having its end coil 24 clenched upon the back portion 8 of the safety pin between the spaced coils 12 and 13 of the loop in a manner calculated to preserve theparts in the particular relation established by the various bending acts just described. It is to be noted that the portions 19, 23, 20, 21 and 22 form a broad hooked shaped member for supporting the garment in the man ner hereinafter described. v

The foregoing has been concerned with the formation of the safety pin and the clasp support from a single length of wire.

t should be particularly noted that the locking lengths 15 and 17 which are joined at their lower terminals by the link 16 gradually converge to the points 25 from which points they extend outwardly by short bends and then to the points of connection with the link 16 by the loop portion 26. These loop portions form the locking means for the movable clasp member which is also formed with a single length of wire and pivotally supported upon the cross bar 21.

Thesecond length of wire employed by this invention to complete the structure of the garment support is much shorter in length than the wire previously described, its extremities being formed with the hook terminals 27 which are adapted to engage the curved locking lengths l5 and 17 of the clasp support. The wire extending from each of the hooked members-27 passes upwardly as at 28 for a distance equal to the radius of the circular curvature of the members 15 and 17. The portions 28 are provided with loops 29 which form pivoting points for the clasp upon the cross bar 21, such cross bar being so designed as to pass through the center of curvature for both of the locking members 15 and 17, as Will be particularly clear from an inspection of Fig. 3. The bight portion 30 of the second wire obviously connecting the continuations of the coils 29 is intermediately reduced as denoted at 31 to pass between the locking members 15 and 17 and is adapted to contact with theback bar 8 of the safety pin when in its locked position.

It is to be particularly noted that the convolutions or bendings of the clasp member proper are all conducted in the same plane, with the exception of the pivoting coils 29, reference being had to Fig. 3 for an adequate illustration of this fact.

In use, the safety pin is secured to the outer nethergarments of the wearer immediately below the waist line and the loops which are usually furnished upon the drawers or inner nethergarments are passed over the claspv member when the latter is in the open, dotted line position of Fig. 8. This clasp member is then moved to the closed position of Fig. 3 and will properly support the loopedgarments without fear of accidental release, until the user desires to remove them. It is to be particularly noted that the hook portions 27 of the clasp proper are normally provided so that they have a tendency to spring away from each other. hen closing the clasp this tendency is in creasingly resisted by the convergence of the locking lengths l5 and 17, until the sudden expansion provided between the points 25 by the loop portions 26 permits the hook members to expand and fill the loops, accordingly necessitating the opening movement of the clasp in the obvious manner, which while no hindrance to manual opera tion effectually prevents casual disengagement of the supported fabric. This latter will thus be held between the clasp and the curved locking lengths and supported mainly by the angular bights 22 as is shown in the dotted lines of Fig. 2 whereby the outer garment is denoted 32 and the inner supported garment by the numeral 33.

While in the foregoing, however, there has thus been illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification such combination and arrangement of elements as consti- 9O tute the preferred embodiment of this invention, it is desired to emphasize the fact that such minor changes in the matters ofproportion and degree may be made in later adaptations of this device as shall not alter the spirit of the invention as defined, in the appended claims.

What is claimed is 1. In a garment supporter formed from a pair of spring wire lengths, a safety serv- 0 ing as the sustaining member, and a depending clasp support including a hook-like supporting member formed integrally from a single length of wire, curved locking lengths also formed from the same length of wire V with said clasp support, and a clasp member formed from the second length of wire and pivoted upon said support to coact withsaid curved lengths. V

2. In a garment supporter formedof a pair of spring wire lengths, a safety pin and a clasp support below the pinincluding a hook-like member formed from the same wire length, circularly curved locln'ng. lengths substantially parallel and projecting rearwardly, formed integrally with said clasp support, and a clasp member pivotally mounted upon the hook-like member of said support and laterally coacting with said curved lengths in resisting its own displacement from closed position. 3

3. In a garment. supporter formed from a pair of spring wire lengths, a safety pin including a head formed by the bight of one of said spring wires, a pin portion formed 1 from a length of wire depending from said bight, an integral clasp support including an upwardly open hook-like member formed from the other length of wire depending from said bight, and a movable clasp member formed from the second piece of spring Wire and pivotally mounted on the terminal of said hook-like member of said support.

4. In a garment supporter formed from a pair of spring Wire lengths, a safety pin including a head formed by the bight of one of said spring Wires, a pin portion formed from a length of Wire depending from said bight, an integral clasp support formed from the other length of Wire depending from said bight and including a hook-like member with its terminal formed of a straight length of Wire, a pair of circular locking lengths formed integrally With said clasp support, and a clasp member pivotally mounted on said straight length of Wire in radial relation to said locking lengths.

5. In a garment supporter formed from a pair of spring Wire lengths, a safety pin having its head formed by a doubled bight portion of one of said Wire lengths, one of the continuations from said bight portion forming the remainder of said safety pin, the other of said continuations from the bight portion forming a pair of circular locking lengths, and a pair of supporting bights connected by a cross bar at the center of curvature of said locking lengths, and the other of said spring Wire lengths forming a clasp member pivoted upon said cross bar and provided With terminal hook portions adapted to radially engage said looking lengths.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

OSCAR KALLBERG.

Witnesses ALBERT NoRELms, KATE NORELIUS.

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